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William Kanengiser at WGF11

Apr 15th, 2011
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Winchester Guitar Festival 2011 is proud to announce their guest artist is the award winning Grammy artist and LAGQ founder member William Kanengiser who will be making his UK solo debut.

As a founding member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, William Kanengiser tours extensively throughout North America, Asia, and Europe, and has recorded for the GHA, Delos, and Sony Classical labels. Their 2004 Telarc release LAGQ’s Guitar Heroes won a Grammy for Best Classical Crossover Album. The latest release, Spin, features an original composition by Mr. Kanengiser for four guitars, “Turn to the Sea.” LAGQ recently released a live concert DVD for Mel Bay Publications, LAGQ LIVE! and will record a CD of Brazilian music with jazz singer Luciana Souza in 2007. (more…)

Credit crunch guitar festival

Mar 9th, 2010
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With all the talk of economic downturn and the upcoming election it might be hard for some of you guitarists to feel as enthusiastic or as flush as you’d normally would. Well don’t worry! WGF10 has the feel-good-factor and a price-tag to match! (more…)

Welcome

Feb 5th, 2010
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Welcome to the WGF10 homepage! This year’s Festival will be the fifth Winchester Guitar Festival and will run from Friday 23 July through to Sunday 25 July 2010. Our regulars might well notice a couple of changes from the format of our previous festivals. Firstly, we have moved venues for the WGF course and will be situated right in the heart of the City at Holy Trinity Church Hall, Upper Brook Street.

The other change is that this year we will be returning to the beautiful Milner Hall for our evening concerts. The acoustics here are particularly special and suit the intimate sound of the guitar perfectly.

Over the next few days and weeks the WGF team will be putting the finer details together and updating them on the website. This includes the exciting announcement of the WGF10 guest artists and tutors! If you want to be the first to know then please subscribe to our free news letter either by RSS or email – this way you won’t miss a thing!